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May GiveawayIt is time for our monthly giveaway! Help us thank our awesome donors by giving them a llama. You can find our donors here.
How can I participate in this giveaway?
Simple, just favorite this journal (we had issues with people spamming comments).
How will the winner be selected?
A random number generator will be used (random.org to be specific). The RNG will be first used to select a page from the list of those who favorited this journal. Then from that list the RNG will be used to select the winner!
Do I have to be a member of this group?
No, you do not have to be a member.
Who can win?
Any member of deviantArt that has been around for at least 6 months and has not won the membership from previous giveaways. The winner must be a deviant who currently does not have an active subscription to deviantArt.
What if this account I have now is under six months, bu

Draw My OC Contest! Join please~~~Finally, contest time! Arrr…..I've been wanting to held a contest since….last year….haha…I was too lazy to write a journal of the contest….*sob*. Okay, now let's get to the point.
Theme
Draw my Dragon and Kirin OC in any scenery
Reference:

Reference sheet : http://sta.sh/013xi9fy914i http://sta.sh/0xa6rmqfzk1
Allowed Media & Style

Media : Digital art and traditional art (must be coloured) ONLY.

Style: Anime (cell-shaded/soft-shaded)/manga & Semi-realism anime ONLY. NO chibis/portrait/abstract/anthro/animation/photomanipulation etc
Some examples that the style I like:
http://chaosringen.deviantart.com/art/Centaur-Warrior-364644727
http://jinkimania.deviantart.com/art/Commission-Pie66-371753047
http://yogisha.deviantart.com/art/Silent-stratosphere-371646432
http://cobi-cobi.deviantart.com/art/Atera-363609173
http://juhaihai.deviantart.com/art/

Oi people - think before you click!Yesterday I got spammed to hell with messages linking to different variants of this image:
They can have slightly different graphics or contain different links but the message is always basically the same - go to this page and you'll receive 20 000

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I have to ask the question - how dim do you have to be to fall for it?
Ok let's see - we have an image hosted on a profile that is 1 day old and asks you to visit a website with a strange url with a promise of a financial reward on an another website. How do you even imagine that would work? And now, of course, people start crying that their computers got infected with malware. Which is great - every genius who fell for this obvious phishing scam deserved it. I hope your shitty computer burns and you along with it.
I know this is a no-duh for 90% of people reading it but for the sake of the rest lets revise what we all should know about online phishig. And before you go all:
No, no you can't.
Copypasta from

[FINISHED]hihihihi <3
Today I've reached 1,000+ watchers * O * holy carp what the fluck kfndmslkrhfgbjnsljshfnc
Amg did you know i never thought i'd get as many as 50 watchers when i joined dA XDDD
idfhvbnmsdjufgdvbjcnlsifh anyways
To thank all my watchers.... Im going to be giving away stuff owo
I know it's not much but I really don't have that much to give ;___; <3 Please understand
Im giving away a goodie bundle consisting of:

-Chibi from me

-Pixel Icon from me
-1 month premium
-150
You can look in my gallery if you want examples
Rules to participate:
-You MUST be one of my watchers BEFORE this journal is posted to be eligible(I will be checking!)
-One entry per person (no using other accounts!)
-You must love apple juice (Nah, just kidding)
To enter (if you are eligible):
-

this journal
-.... thats it 8D
Because I will be picking a number from a random generator, you must fav this journal and the number yo

1000 Point Giveaway!Okay enough of joining giveaways.....it's time to host one!

Remember the big surprise I was talking about in the previous journal? Well here it is! My BIGGEST giveaway yet!

Total prizes reach 1000

SIX more winners will be chosen who EACH will receive 50

!!!!!
~~I will be so broke after this...~~

But of course there are always the rules......

Please please please fave the journal!

Make another journal about this giveaway and provide a link of that journal in the comments (this will help spread the word about this giveaway)
Want another entry?
:bulletgreen:You can :+devwatch: me to get your name entered TWICE! EDIT:For those who are ALREADY watching me you can still earn additional entries by faving my art! Each fave gets you ONE extra entry! (Max number of entries: 3)
IMPORTANT: Please be sure to state what you did

Opinions are a Dangerous thing: Art StylesThis isn't about narking on anyone no, infact this is just my own muses really! You could say this is a journal for ENCOURAGEMENT! *SHINES*
I find sticking to one style restrictive if you are a beginning/moderate artist! (even professionals I might say! though I can't speak for everyone)
Having a distinctive look on how your art is done and produced is understandable and its a desire to appear unique to the point some one can just SEE your work and instantly think 'Oh! that's Ten-days!' or something along the line. However, when you are trying to find who you are and what kind of art you are to produce, I recommend trying, well, a lot of different things! Different styles, mixing styles, different colouring techinque, brushes, tools, shading. Don't feel dependant on what you are already doing and don't feel pressured by people just for trying new things!
Push out of your comfort zone. Can't draw hands? don't avoid it! draw the heck out of them! (how else are you going to learn?)
Draw a

Made a video again :P...another fake Parashi Opening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGa8pPlOxuQ
It's really choppy and suuuuuper scribbly because I took like 30 seconds to draw each frame. Please fill in the gaps and gloss over the art with your wonderful imagination! I made it in Windows Movie Maker which is an absolutely evil program =o=
I'll try to fix up the ugly pictures and maybe add some color when I have time, and reupload another version later :b (don't know when though.) For now feel free to watch this one and laugh at it huhuhu
(the song is Tenkuu no Canaria, from ToS *w*b)

Win free MLP OC commissionHi guys!
I have finally decided to have some sort of give-away/contest/lottery/whatever-you-like-to-call-it

You will have the chance to win a drawing made by me, with you MLP original character
What you'll have to do to participate:
•Favorite this journal
•Put a link to your OC that you would like me to draw in in the comment field below,
•also add a little comment why I should pick your OC :3 Only one entry/person
(If you don't do all three thing above your entry won't count)
What you will win:
•A drawing of your OC, made by me with markers on paper size A5, drawn in this style http://fav.me/d65cire
If you would like me to send the physical drawing to you you'll have to pay for the shipping (only Paypal accepted), otherwise I can send the scanned version to you by e-mail :3
.• I will pick TWO (2) winners! •.
I have no idea how many that will enter, I have never done something like this before x)
This contest will end at May 23rd (which means you'll have one week to enter)
So.. good

Derpy Hooves Beanie Giveaway!Hello everyone :] I've decided to give away this Derpy!

Please follow the rules and you'll have a chance to win her and take her home!

1. Fav this journal
2. Please write a journal about this giveaway and link it back here in the comments.
3. Add me to your watch list :]
Each person who watches, faves this journal and makes a journal will get a number. I'll be using random.org to choose a number, and when someone's number is picked that person will win the plushie! Easy enough right? I will pay for shipping worldwide.
The winner will be announced June 2nd :iconderpyclapplz:
Any questions please ask. Do NOT make multiple accounts just so you can have a better chance. Please make this fair for everyone :iconaawplz: Thank you!
Good luck :'D

Mini Point Giveaway - Enter Quickly!200
1st - 100 :icontwaanie:
2nd - 50 :iconbannabutt-angel-14:
3rd - 30 :iconGIR10:
4th - 10 :iconYams83:
5th - 10 :iconCrimsonRobin:

This Mini Giveaway ended May 17th 9:00PM GMT (UK Time)
All winners are picked at random! (random.org)

Mickey's Chibi Raffle!EDIT YOU HAVE LITTLE TIME LEFT FOLKS. NIGHT!
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Hi folks! Thank you again for 500 watchers!
Er. 508 watchers! I'm really slow at doing things for you guys.
You can slap me.
This raffle is for watchers only.
:iconbuhuuplz:
Anyone who watches me after *Rashirou will not count.
All you have to do is fave this journal and I'll use that random generator thing....what's it called Linh?
That thing. I'll use that thing.
First Prize Winner gets a chibi like this:

The winner will be chosen
Wednesday May 22 at 1500 hours PST.

Eurovision nightGot myself some ice cream and will be making myself compfy on the sofa so I'm ready for the big, glittery, horrible music, camp, pointless politics, drama that is eurovision. It never disappoints me.

Sadly I will be alone for this one. Matt had to do a concert he didn't want to do, so I will be live tweeting (humonlazydiva) my impression of the whole shebang.

(UPDATED)DRAW MY OC!WIN 1000 POINTS AND MORE!EDIT #1-YOU CAN NOW WIN,1000 POINTS!+ADDED MORE PRIZES!
EDIT #2-DONATORS WILL BE FEATURED BELOW.
EDIT#3-ADDED MORE PRIZES!
(if you wanna know why i raised the prizes,its because i won a contest!yay!)
YAY!Another contest!I hope someone will join!
So..its about my newest OC,Kasumi,.of course,youre going to draw her~

Things to clarify:

A mage's abilities are:supernatural strength,able to cast magic spells,able to survive for a long period of time.
Her staff/rod appears when shes battling with someone.

CONTEST RULES:
You have to draw Kasumi.
You can draw her with her likes and dislikes,her casting spells or just her alone.
Do not draw her with your OC or my other OC's,they dont know each other.
Do not draw her as an animal and pony.
Backgrounds are preferred but not needed.(although putting one will really raise your chances at winning!)
Traditional and Digital drawings only.
Chibis,headshot

Advice and TutorialsSo this First Advice and Tutorial Journal will be on General Anatomy and Such. The second will be up to you so please comment below in what you think the next Advice and Tutorial Journal should be on.
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What I personally find the hardest to draw is feet and hands. I found that with a lot of practice and a lot of frustrating mistakes my feet and hands actually look at the very least almost the way i want them to be.
Now my favorite Style of drawing is Anime or sometimes semi-realism, and i find that by doing studies of the more traditional style realism actually helps improve my anime pictures greatly. For instance i would practice drawing my hands and feet in different positions holding different things and from different angles. I also find it extremely helpful while i'm drawing and i'm having a particularly hard time drawing a hand or a foot in a certain position i will stop for a

SBFF exclusive at SDCC!!DC has announced Super Best Friends Forever EXCLUSIVE maquettes for San Diego Comic Con 2013!!! http://www.themarysue.com/super-best-friends-statues/

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Tablet PC Goodness

I'm intending to get a tablet PC at some point. I'm hoping the tablet Mac rumours will pan out. If not, I'm looking at a Motion LE1700 (unless the Scribbler comes back in stock -- what a beauty).

If anyone has suggestions or advice (or is selling one in the UK), please leave me a comment.

Trades Update

So that I don't forget all the art trades and so on that I'm planning to do, I've decided to make a list of them. If I'm missing any, let me know and I'll update the list.

Trades

~Mystical-Si:

Slayers fanart

~president-Uke:

3 RPG-style Chibis

Other

Chibi group (inspired by [link]

New ID

New icon

OC refs

A satyr; OC Seth or Aeri; fluffy sheep: [link]

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~Nert Jul 24, 2008 Hobbyist Photographer

I've got an old Motion m1200 slate and it's a beautiful, beautiful device, even though it's far less shiny than the LE1700

I can also put in a thumbs up for the Acer travelmate tablet PCs, *SpookyRuthy swears by hers.

=Lulie Jul 24, 2008 Hobbyist General Artist

That's very helpful, thank you! I'll check out the Acer, though a quick google search says it's a convertible, and therefore probably a bit heavy for what I want it for.

About your Motion slate: what are the screen viewing angles like? Does it change colour much when viewed from different angles? I only had a brief encounter with a Motion LE1700 in real life, so I didn't get a good look at it.

What's beautiful about it, and how has the LE1700 improved on it?

~Nert Jul 24, 2008 Hobbyist Photographer

They are convertibles, yeah -- the one she has is a 12" one and really light but the current models are all larger, so they have gotten kinda heavy.

Ah, sadly the viewing angle on mine is rather poor in portrait mode, the colours change after more than about 10-15 degrees, but landscape is fine - the brightness changes at more extreme angles but that's all.

The battery life when doing lightweight stuff, drawing in sketchbook or browsing pictures etc is lovely, 2-3 hours even on the old battery I have. Anything more intensive, like detailed photoshop work, it gets pretty hot on one end and the battery only lasts about an hour, hour and a half.

It's basically light, handy and straightforward, it's a screen with about 4 buttons on one end, everything else is hidden on the sides. Mine's definitely the cheap option, none of the ports have covers and from the bottom it looks kinda ugly but I don't look at that side

Drawing is essentially the same as any tablet I've used, the sensitivity is nice, could do with more configurable buttons for holding down modifier keys in photoshop but eh.

I've got a fast card reader plugged in the PCMCIA slot and it's become my uber photo downloader/viewer slate, and it makes for a very overpowered Satnav system with a GPS plugged in and Google Earth running

I haven't seen the LE1700 in person but from the website alone it's a lot more powerful with a lot more bells on - mine's only USB1.0, slower processor/ram/network/etc. It also looks like the LE1700 optionally comes with a screen designed for better viewing angles and outdoor use.

=Lulie Jul 25, 2008 Hobbyist General Artist

Do you find that yours is fast enough for heavy Photoshop use? That's one of the things I was concerned about: the LE1700 only has a 1.2-1.5ghz processor (depending which model you get), and I'll probably have large files with lots of layers. Does it get laggy?

Would you say it's not really usable for painting/drawing in portrait mode, due to the colour shift?

Yeah, I fully intend to get a tablet with an outdoors-viewable screen. When I was having a look at the LE1700 in real life, apparently it was one of the outdoors-viewable models, but sadly I didn't note what the viewing angles were like beyond 'it's different from my Mac'. -_-;

~Nert Jul 25, 2008 Hobbyist Photographer

RAM's usually more important for keeping photoshop happy, mine does slow down if I'm using a bunch of layers but it's only a 800mhz processor with 512mb (upgraded!) of ye olde sdram

For what it is I'm actually impressed it can do as much as it can, my old desktop of similar spec wouldn't have kept up.. It'll help if you don't mind sticking it on a little laptop cooler too (the ones that're basically a sheet of corrugated metal with a fan or two in it), since the processor slows down when it gets hotter.

Ruth's Acer Travelmate C110 is 1GHz/512MB ddr ram and she definitely abuses photoshop without too much hassle XD

Painting portrait on mine is probably tricky, lineart is definitely fine -- it's something you can and do get used to (it can really freak your eyes out at first) and as long as you're looking dead-on it's good, but I'd guess if you wanted to take colouring/painting seriously it might save your sanity to stick with landscape.. On the other hand the one you're looking at claims to be a lot better, whereas mine's about 5-6 years old

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I just took a bunch of photos to give you an idea, there's a few reflections making it look worse than it is but you get the general gist. A little left and right (in portrait) is okay but anything more goes into overly bright/dark all the way into negative. Up and down loses contrast in the high angles but generally is pretty good. I'd have rather it be the other way around as I like showing photos portrait and not letting people see from the sides is a pain..

I certainly wouldn't mind one

=Lulie Jul 27, 2008 Hobbyist General Artist

Thanks so much for all your help! The photos were good examples. I've heard the newer screens on the LE1700 are better, though that's just going by word of mouth.

I really would like to go with the LE1700, but I might have to get a roductDisplayBundle?IsBundle=true&GroupID=37&Code=X61_tablet_WWAN&OID=:00000025:00000165:&

ID=CNETDFX61_tablet_WWAN&"Lenovo X61t instead (a convertible that's pretty similar to the LE1700 in specs). ... It's around £600 cheaper, you see. ._.

I'm trying to find a way to justify spending £600 on something that's easier to carry/less bulky to draw on. And so far, failing, but I'm going to try the convertible out in real life soon, so I should have a better idea then.

Thanks again.

=Lulie Jul 27, 2008 Hobbyist General Artist

Bah, broken link. Lenovo X61t. Google knows.

`AndyGassner Jul 23, 2008 Photographer

Oh I have to say, the Scribbler looks really pretty.

Although a tablet Mac would be the definition of a sexy computer.

=Lulie Jul 24, 2008 Hobbyist General Artist

I suspect the tablet Mac rumours will just turn out to be a touch-screen computer, which is pretty useless for drawing. Also, the rumours say "Smaller than a MacBook, larger than an iPhone" -- I'm not sure if that will be good enough for drawing. But, we'll see.

`AndyGassner Jul 24, 2008 Photographer

Looks like it'll be quite small.

A touch-screen computer would just be a shame though. :/

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